A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case. Nightclub-managing, drug-dealing gangster Uchida is the prime suspect in the case until he commits suicide. Kobayashi then discovers evidence that points to the doctor sibling of an innocent girl. The climax in a rural snowy locale is suspenseful and well-staged.

Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh ou...

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within...

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

When two brothers steal a valuable heirloom from an elderly Japanese woman, they unknowingly awaken ...

After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kur...

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster emplo...

Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorne...

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the ...

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kaz...

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange f...

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher...

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gan...

Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness ...

Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line,...

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective crimin...

The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ...